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Every month in the Readers directory of our CD-ROMs, we include the modules, pictures, games and utilities sent in by talented readers. If you want worldwide distribution of your work, you can't go wrong by sending it to us at CU Amiga. There's three main ways of submitting material; by post, by e-mail and by FTP.

In each case, there are some guidlines to follow. We don't want to make it harder for you but our responsibility as a publisher tie our hands. The following instructions refer to contributions as 'Uploads' but they apply no matter what method is used to submit the material.

Submissions Guidelines

Uploads should be in an archived format, such as lha, lzx or tar.gz/tgz. Please do not send DMS archives, if it needs to be a complete floppy disk, then it won't run direct from the CD and is almost certainly unsuitable.
Each upload must be accompanied with a 'readme' file. If you upload MyProg.lha then also upload MyProg.readme. This file should include the following information:
- If your are the author of the upload: state your name, email address, permission to include it on the CU Amiga CD and a statement that you hold copyright for the enclosed files.
- If you are not the author: give your name and email plus the author's name and contact info (either email, phone or snail address). Also state that this is for distribution on the CU Amiga CD and that you are uploading with the knowledge and permission of the author.
Please include any other relevant information in the readme, such as any libraries that must be present on the CD, if you are not including them. This is not the place for general documentation, that should be in the archive, but for anything that may help us to install it to run from the CD.
Please don't use absolute paths for icon default tools etc. While MyDrive:Path/to/utilities/IconX may work on your system, it certainly won't work on the CD. If the default tools are standard stuff, like IconX, then there's no problem with giving no path. If the tools are specials, then include them in the archive.

Thanks for reading this far, and sorry if it's a bit of a hassle, but it is necessary. Prepare for fame :)

Submissions by Post

Please send your submissions to the following address;

CD Submissions
CU Amiga Magazine
37-39 Millharbour
Isle of Dogs
London, E14 9TZ
United Kingdom

Submissions are accepted on; DD floppy disks, Iomega ZIP disks, Syquest EZ135 carts and CD-R media. We will return mass storage disks but not floppy disks.

Submissions by E-Mail

While we discourage it, we do accept MIME octet stream encoded binaries (archives). Please include the readme either as the text e-mail before the attachments or attached as a MIME encode. We urge you to excersize common sense regarding size, if the archive is very large FTP is far better.

The E-mail address to send the archives to is cd-contrib@cu-amiga.co.uk, please don't send E-mail requiring a response to this address, use one of the addresses in the Editorial section of this web site or Neil Bothwick.

Submissions by FTP

FTP is a very convienient way to send material to us. However because of security issues, you can't upload to our FTP site by logging in as an anonymous user. In this case, please use the following details;

FTP Site: ftp.cu-amiga.co.uk
Login:    cucd
Password: reader

You wont see your uploads but if your FTP client reports no problems, everything has gone according to plan. We'll be in touch via your E-mail address in the readme if anything has gone wrong.

Neil Bothwick - CU Amiga CD Compiler

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